A computer program that provides users with an easy-to-understand overall view of relationships between objects. A data loader reads relationship information out of an object descriptor database and loads view-related object descriptors into a working memory, where the relationship information describes relationships between objects. A data sorter sorts the view-related object descriptors in the working memory into groups, based on their absorption, dependence, and exclusion relationships described in the relationship information. This sorting process yields a hierarchy of view-related object descriptors according to their absorption relationships. A hierarchy view data builder retrieves view-related object descriptors, along with link descriptors, from the working memory according to a structure tree that represents inter-object relationships. The hierarchy view data builder saves the retrieved view-related object descriptors in a tree hierarchy database.